He often walked around Bellevue Hospital...

HOSPITAL SLAYING.

February 9, 1989

NEW YORK — HOSPITAL SLAYING. He often walked around Bellevue Hospital in surgical garments. He went into operating rooms unhindered during surgery. He ate in the staff cafeteria and slept in staff rooms. New York Newsday reported that Wednesday in an account of how police believe Steven Smith was able to rape and strangle a doctor in her Bellevue office on Jan. 7. Several hospital employees told police that Smith apparently was not asked to leave the operating rooms, Newsday said.